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Month: October 2015

Hundreds of young people were packed into a music club in central Bucharest, Romania, jamming to the head-pounding heavy metal music filling their ears. But a fire that may have been sparked by pyrotechnics late on Friday quickly erupted with dark, blinding smoke — killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 160 others,… Read More 27 dead, several injured as fire razes nightclub in Romania

A Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday, police say. Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in the city centre, hours after another publisher and two secular writers were injured in an attack. They are the… Read More Bangladeshi publisher hacked to death

A video purportedly from ISIS surfaced online on Friday and shows the terrorists beheading four Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in retaliation for the daring raid by U.S.-led coalition forces last week in northern Iraq. At the end of the 15-minute video, a masked English-speaking man delivers a warning to U.S. President Barack Obama before he executes… Read More Kurdish fighters beheaded in ISIS new video

Actor Al Molinaro died on Friday in Glendale, California, his son Michael Molinaro said. He was aged 96. Molinaro, who was best known for his role as Big Al Delvecchio in the sitcom “Happy Days,” suffered from complications of a gall stone ailment and was at Verdugo Hills Hospital when he died. Due to his… Read More ‘Happy Days’ actor, Al Moralino dies at 96

A fire left 15 people dead, including six children, early Saturday at a public market in the Philippines, the Philippines News Agency reported. Thirteen others were injured . The fire destroyed 350 stalls, mostly used clothing shops, and caused heavy damage to a three-story commercial building in Zamboanga, Dominador Zabala Jr., the city fire marshal,… Read More Fifteen dead as fire razes market in Philippines

NASA said a large space rock was set to fly narrowly by Earth on Saturday morning — the early hours of Halloween — looks like a skull. Scientists say that the rock is a “dead” comet. In NASA terminology, that means it had “shed its volatiles” that would produce the visible tail seen on some… Read More Skull-like asteroid flew past Earth today

The dramatic plunge in oil prices over the past 18 months has caused a “pronounced negative swing”, in Saudi Arabia’s financial picture, S&P warned. The oil-rich kingdom has gone from a healthy budget surplus of 7% of GDP in 2013 to a projected deficit of 16% this year. S&P estimates that unless oil prices rebound… Read More Saudi Arabia downgrades budget due to oil crash

Mr Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, said on Friday that the apex bank had no intention to devalue the nation’s currency. He told State House correspondents that the last devaluation took place in February and would remain so for now. “There has been a lot of talk on whether or not… Read More No more devaluation of naira- CBN Governor